CCCC Convention Program Corpus

Sessions and listed participants from the programs of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), 1998, 1999 and 2004–2027: 16,166 sessions and 63,791 listings of a person in a session, in 19,207 name clusters. Names, affiliations and paper titles are as printed in the programs. Affiliations are matched to ROR and, for US colleges, to IPEDS. The dataset adds each session's proposal area as CCCC printed it (with a grouping into families), special-interest group, caucus and standing-group meetings by name, convention themes and program chairs, and roles folded into a few kinds. Read before counting. Counts are of people listed in the program, not attendees. 2000–2003 and the years before 1998 are not included. 2020 is the program of a cancelled convention, 2021 and 2022 were virtual, and 2027 is the listing before the convention. The source changes from PDF to eShow in 2024. People are joined across years on an exact name plus pairs a reviewer confirmed. Against the programs' own indexes of participants (2004 to 2011) the PDF parser reaches precision 0.87–0.97 and recall 0.82–0.94. Sources. The 1998 web program and the 1999 PDFs, from the Wayback Machine; NCTE's program PDFs for 2004–2023; NCTE's eShow listings for 2024–2027. The programs are NCTE's. This dataset holds facts printed in them and software-made matches and groupings, and it leaves out NCTE's session descriptions. NCTE has not reviewed or endorsed it. Files: CSV tables, a SQLite copy, a data dictionary and a Frictionless datapackage.json. Browse and query it at https://cccc-program-reader.fly.dev and https://cccc-program-corpus.fly.dev. Code (MIT license): https://github.com/justalewis/cccc-program-corpus. Corrections: [e-mail].